About Us
We help organisations transform the way they fund the work that matters
We're tired of the waste
We watched our best researchers, fundraisers, and entrepreneurs spend months each year applying for funding. We saw funders' hard-earned capital consumed by the application process itself. We challenged ourselves to harness generative AI to solve this problem — but not in a superficial way.
Through careful, iterative pilots with the University of Melbourne, we built something genuinely different: the capability to support people with even the most complex funding submissions, reducing preparation time by up to 85%. We bring together decades of expertise with the power of Wholegrain AI.
Who we serve
We started with researchers because their need was urgent. But important ideas needing funding exist far beyond academia — clinicians working to improve patient outcomes, environmental innovators protecting our future, social enterprises building stronger communities, and organisations seeking philanthropic and commercial investment. We serve anyone whose work deserves support, because great ideas shouldn't fail for lack of time or resources to present them well.
How we work
We partner with your organisation to embed the expertise of your best people into private, encrypted AI agents — your institutional knowledge, your winning formula, your voice. That expertise remains exclusive to you, creating competitive advantage that compounds over time.
We work with First Nations and Lived Experience Experts to help your people meaningfully learn and build submissions that respectfully include — and mutually benefit — First Nations Australians and communities with lived experience of the issues you're addressing.
Wholegrain's AI agents then interview each applicant or team, drawing on your embedded expertise to shape and refine applications. Strong drafts emerge within hours, not weeks. We review, edit, and finesse from there.
Beyond a single application
Our vision extends well beyond individual submissions. The same system that helps you win funding helps you report on it, tell the story of your impact, and identify alternative funding sources across government, philanthropic, and commercial opportunities. Within an organisation, we create seamless links between grants, commercialisation, and advancement functions.
This isn't cookie-cutter, plug-and-play. It's deep insight, partnership, and human expertise — backed by Wholegrain's powerful agentic AI.
Ready to experience how we work?